Posts Tagged ‘asylum seekers’

How do you prove you love someone? More to the point, how does the state reassure itself you’re in love with someone? I ask the question because this morning’s Today programme ran an interesting p...
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I'm completely baffled by the volumes of outrage, the outpourings of fury, which have greeted the decisions reached by Mr Justice Mitting meeting to keep Abu Qatada in this country. It's worth bearing...
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If you’re small “l” liberal, and you genuinely care about liberty, justice and due process under the law, you should be out on the streets this morning demanding the deportation of Abu Qatada. G...
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The European Court of Justice has ruled that Britain and Ireland cannot return asylum seekers to Greece because their human rights would be jeopardised. An Afghan had challenged a British decision to ...
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There is an argument that television changed the nature both of political protest and of political debate itself, so that progressive ideas since 1968 have been highly dependent on how they appear on ...
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The cases of some 61,000 asylum seekers have been closed without the applicant having been traced, according to a new report by the Home Affairs Select Committee. They represent one in seven of the 45...
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If you want an example of a policy that is right in theory and wrong in practice, you can’t do much better than the idea of giving gay asylum seekers the right to stay in Britain. In theory it is t...
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It's hard not to appear a bigot if one questions the unanimous decision of the Supreme Court to allow the appeals of two gay men from Cameroon and Iran against being refused asylum in the UK. As I und...
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On the radio this morning the Government’s plans to repatriate Afghan children back to Afghanistan was presented in the BBC’s usual impartial way – by giving central prominence to criticism ...
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Norman Tebbit raises the possibility of Somali pirates being tried in Britain and then claiming asylum here. I am certain they could do so successfully. It reminds me of a young friend who is exper...
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